Interesting. It appears the NSS is a level above Chess Genius Pro. I was expecting it to be closer, even with the small number of games played so far. Actually, from what I've read about MCGP on this forum, I was expecting it to be ahead.

Thanks for posting the games. I am following with keen interest.

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I found this thread of yours http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7672 and that was just MCG (not Pro) and it won convincingly. The Pro version is supposed to be stronger but it's getting whooped in this match already. What to make of this?

The number of games are few, and anything can happen, even in the full 20-game match; but that would of course be totally unpredicted. Even though it's seldom that a match starts this way, it isn't totally uncommon either. Even though I have a small advantage of knowing how the standing are after 8 games (they will be published now), I still would have predicted a clear win for the MCG Pro even after the first 5 games.

The manual meetings are way slower than my automatic meetings; but in those automatic meetings, there are often discrepancies between any individual of the 4 chunks of 10 games, and the full 40 games which is our standard in automatic meetings (20 games for manual meetings).

I am staying tuned to this thread because I want to see if MCGP ends up beating Novag. This is a very interesting match. Thanks for all the games you posted so far.

Hope that the next two games will provide interesting, even though the 9th game wasn't the funniest and featured a humanly induced bug. More info will come as soon as I publish the latest games, something which will happen later today hopefully.

I wonder what that could be, but right away, it sounds like my kind of thing.

Awaiting with bated breath.

EdgarAllen

These batch of four games includes two tales, one about the human bug and the other one is the story of the two Swedish kings on their respective "Eriksgata".

The Bug

I recognised the fault as soon as I was about to transfer the two written protocols to my laptop (away from home) and noticed with some discomfort that the 9th game wasn't finished correctly. In my database-program on the computer, the game was one move short. It took me some time to find out that I have jumped two numbers in one part of my totally handwritten protocol, and therefore incorrectly thought that the game was 160 moves long - when it really only was 159 moves. As the 50 moves rule was to be invoked by black's 160th move, I had incorrectly stopped the game one move too soon.

As I had no option to just continue the game, as I had started (and finished a new game); I had to invest some time in inputting all 159 moves again in both computers, and then let them think on their 160th move so that I could finish the game correctly. It would of course have been easier to just adjudicate the game as it was, but I prefer the correct way - even though it took some time to correct my "bug".

The Tale Of The Eriksgata

The 12th game is really the tale of two Swedish kings on their respective Eriksgata. Both King Novag the elder and King Genius Pro thought that they should pay a visit to the whole kingdom in order to get enough support for their reign. Most diligent traveller was the old King Novag, but his support wasn't as good as King Genius Pro. He wasn't killed in action as the old Ragnvald Knaphövde, but as King Genius was more capable of utilizing his own forces as both shield and sword, he prevailed and King Novag gave up his thoughts about becoming the new king on move 86. It was though a most impressive Eriksgata by King Novag and it was a really fun game to watch live.

I will now continue with the 13th game and I hope the rest will be as joyful to watch as the last one.